Rakes Are More Suspicious Than Honest Men.

Whenever We Approve, We Can Find A Hundred Good Reasons To Justify Our Approbation. Whenever We Dislike, We Can Find A Thousand To Justify Our Dislike.

There Is A Pride, A Self-love, In Human Minds That Will Seldom Be Kept So Low As To Make Men And Women Humbler Than They Ought To Be.

Youth Is Rather To Be Pitied Than Envied By People In Years Since It Is Doomed To Toil Through The Rugged Road Of Life Which The Others Have Passed Through, In Search Of Happiness That Is Not To Be Met With In It And That, At The Highest, Can Be Compounded For Only By The Blessing Of A Contented Mind.

All Human Excellence Is But Comparative — There Are Persons Who Excel Us, As Much As We Fancy We Excel The Meanest.

Marriage Is A State That Is Attended With So Much Care And Trouble, That It Is A Kind Of Faulty Indulgence And Selfishness To Livesingle, In Order To Avoid The Difficulties It Is Attended With.